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Resolution

Everything Canon indexes, across all your roots, is your universe. Resolving it is the goal of the work: deciding, for all of it, that content worth keeping is archived and content not worth keeping is excluded. The universe shrinks from both directions, and what remains is the work still to do.

Coverage is evidence

Covered content is verified present in the archive by content identity: the same hash stands at an archive root. Coverage is a precise claim about content and nothing more. It does not say the archive copy is arranged the way you want, and it does not say you chose it; content can be covered by a copy nobody deliberately placed.

Coverage is evidence. The judgment that content is resolved stays yours: Canon states what it can verify and leaves the conclusion to you.

Standings

A present source is in exactly one standing:

  • excluded: consciously dismissed (see Exclusion)
  • contentless: empty, nothing for content identity to verify (see empty files are contentless)
  • archived from here: the still-standing original of content archived out of this place by a copy
  • covered: content verified present in the archive, though not archived from here
  • unresolved: none of the above; no resolution evidence

When several could apply, the earlier in this list wins: exclusion is a judgment and covers the content whatever else is true of it, and an empty file is contentless before any identity test. A source that was never hashed counts as unresolved, because its coverage cannot be verified; empty files are the exception, since there is no content to lose.

The verdict is asymmetric

Canon can prove content unresolved: present, no coverage evidence, not excluded. It never certifies the opposite. The retirement review says NOT READY while unresolved sources stand; when nothing blocks, it reports that no blockers were found and leaves the verdict to you.

Where this vocabulary appears

canon coverage counts covered content, canon survey reads a location’s archive overlap, canon roots story maps a root’s standings by place, and the retirement review states them as counts before a root is released.